was the 88 gt available with a 140mph speedo?

my 88 has a 180



















































But Im also in KM's lol

The only way it could be "original" is if it is a Ford Motorsport speedo. Some dealers put them in for new owners, and they were available from the parts counter for 87-88 cars. Most likely it was replaced at some point with a 89 speedo, and the speedo and odometer are one unit. You could try to pull it and check the part number and maybe see what year it could be from. Oh, and you might get a carfax on it to see if the mileage is accurate.

Ive had 2 88 Mustang Gts. My vert. had and 85mph speedo and my 88 hatch which I have now has a 140mph speedo.

GREYFOX4INCH said:

SO..... what the heck. do you have any way of kowing (or prooving) that your hatch came fresh out of the factory with the 140mph speedometer?

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It wasn't until late '89 when Ford started using 140 speedos, all '90-'93 5.0s had them "

^ if thats a solid fact then i am gonna have to do a carfax or pull out the cluster to try and match of serial numbers or somthing.
my gut tells me there should be a serial # right on the cluster itself to help prevent odometer fraud.

I bought this car out of New York State(out of state) and the title did not even have spot to put in the miles, so it seems pretty simple to swap the cluster from a wrecked 90-93 and sell the car for a nice thousands more then the car is worth!

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Most Fox mustangs are exempt from odometer status anyway because it dosent have the 6 digit odometer. So car fax will mostlikely not help you at all. My car had 63k and when i got it titled in PA and FL they both made it exempt.

I did a CarFax on my 88 hatch and basically they said the Odo. was tampered with because it only had 40k miles. It actaully had 140k, odo. rolled over. And just to clarify I said I had an 88GT Hatch with 140MPH speedo, not who or when it was installed. I have not taken the dash apart far enough to inspect it more closley(not a big fan of dash work) but it looks all original. For all I know the previous owner replaced the whole cluster with a later model Fox. If so I couldnt tell. I dont remember where or even when I heard this, so it might just be someone talking out of there @ss but I heard verts,notchs had 85mph speeds as well as most Hatchs but some hatches had 140s. I dont know and to be honest I never really gave it much thought up untill now. everyone seems to agree no 140s till 89 and I have yet to have this forum steer me wrong.I will have to look into it now out of pure curiousity.

It's a simple swap to put a 140mph speedo in there. I did it 3 or 4 times on my old 88 til I finally swapped a correctly calibrated speedo in to it. You can swap the whole cluster, or swap just the speedo. It's very simple.

Anyway, rolling the mileage to correct mileage is easy with a dremel tool set to high.

Mustang5L5 said:

You can match the miles, but it will take some time to do with a drill on the speedo input.

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You can tap out the end of the silver shaft with the small white gears, reset the mileage to what you want, realign the small gears and tap the shaft back in. Takes 10 minutes. Take a pic for reference to get it back together correctly.